Abstract:
This study is going to examine the anxiety levels and their causes and try to offer solutions to overcome this problem for Arab school students who are learning English at Al Wahda Arab Iskola School in Budapest in Hungary. In order to answer the research questions, the researcher plans to conduct a quantitative research with the participation of about 40 students from different grades with the ages of 11 to 18 from Al Wahda Arab Iskola School. The researcher will examine through a questionnaire based on the foreign language classroom anxiety scale of Horwitz, E. K., Horwitz, M. B., & Cope, K. (1986) of 33 anxiety items.
The paper came up with the result that the students of Al Wahda Arab Iskola in Budapest exhibit anxiety in the classroom with female students having more levels of anxiety than their male counterparts and younger students more than older ones. This should give motive to the people in charge to study this phenomenon and try to find some solutions. Some new strategies need to be applied including the use of modern technology, group work, teachers praise and encouragement and changing the view of evaluating the students based on exams and focusing on the use of the language instead. |
